Professor Murphy is a partner in the Bio/Pharm Practice Group of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., where her practice focuses on strategic client counseling, portfolio management, and patent prosecution for a range of clients, including small startup companies, research foundations, and large biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. She provides patentability opinions, prepares new patent applications, prosecutes U.S. and foreign applications, and represents appellants before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In addition to her patent counseling and prosecution practice, Professor Murphy also routinely represents petitioners and patent owners in inter partes review (IPR) and post grant review (PGR) proceedings before the PTAB.